Car-door fastener



(No Model.)

G. W. BUSHING.

GAR DOOR FASTENER.

Patented Mar. 16-, 1886.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY.

.' ATENT FFIQELQ GEORGE WV. OUSHING, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

CAR-DOOR FASTENER.

GATIQN forming part of Letters Patent N0. 337,929, dated lvlarch 16, 1886.

Application filed Xovember 13, 1885.

Serial No. 182,698. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE XV. OUSHING, of St. Paul, in the county of Ramsay and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Door Fasteners, of which improvements the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide simple and effective means for preventing sliding doors of freight'cars from being pried up and swung open, so as to enable car-thieves to gain admission without disturbing the usual side fastenings of the door or its seal.

The improvements claimed are hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view in elevation of a freight-car door, illustrating the application of my invention; Fig. 2, an end view of the same; Fig. 3, a front view in elevation, and 011 an enlarged scale, of the bottom fastener; and Fig. 4, a side view of the same.

The door 1, to which my improvements are applied, is of the sliding type ordinarily employed in freight-cars, and works between upper and lower door tracks or rails, 2 3, which are secured to the plates 4, and side sills, 5, of the car in the usual manner, in this case being supported upon friction rollers journaled in the brackets 8, and traversing on the lower track, 3.

As heretofore constructed, car-doors of such character have been fastened, when closed against their closed-door stops 6, by means of a side fastener, 7, which is locked by a padlock and seals. Under such construction the objection obtains that the door can he pried up and swung open at the side opposite the fastener 7, sufficiently far to enable access to be had to the interior of the car without breaking the lock of the side fastener, or disturbing its seals, so that robberies may be committed without any indication being afforded that the door has been tampered with, and their discovery be thus delayed until too late to trace and detect the persons by whom they have been committed. To obviate such objection, I provide a bottom fastener by which the lower portion of the door is secured to the body of the car adjacent to the side of the door opposite to that on which the usual side fastener is located, so that the door, be

ing locked at its opposite sides, cannot be opened without such operation being evidenced by the breakage of the seals. The bottom fastener is composed of a locking-star ple, 9,-secured to and projecting from the side sill, 5, and having a slot near its outer end, adapted to admit the body of a sealing-bolt, 10, which is coupled by a chain, 11, to the car-door, and is provided with an enlarged head or stop, 12, on its upper end, of diameter greater than the width of the slot on the lock ing-staple, so as to prevent it from being passed through the same, and with a slot, 13, near its lower end, through which a sealing wire may be passed. A bearing-plate, 14, is fixed to the door 1, above and in line with the locking-staple 9, and a hasp, 15, is hinged by a bolt, 16, to said plate, the hasp having aslot near its lowerend of proper size to pass freely over the locking-staple 9, and over a suspending staple, 17, fixed to the upper portion of the bearing-plate 14.

To fasten the door, the hasp 15 is swung down over the locking-staple 9, and held thereto by inserting the sealing-bolt 10 in the slot of the staple. The bolt 10 being then sealed through its slot 13, it will be seen that no movement of the door can be effected without the removal of the-bolt, which will be imme diately detected by the breakage of the seal necessarily involved in such operation.

\Vheu not required to be used-that is, due ingsuch periods asthe door is not to be lockedthe hasp 15 is turned up over the suspending staple 17 of the bearing-plate 14, and held in position by inserting the sealing-bolt 10 therein, the hasp and sealing-bolt being thus kept out of the way and protected from liability to be broken or detached.

The fastener, which is inexpensive in con struction, can be readily applied to any sliding door, and in practice has been found to effectively obviate the objection existing in the ordinary method of securing car-doors.

I do not herein claim, broadly, the combination, with a sliding car-door, of a side fastener, and abottom fastener adapted to secure the lower portion of the door to the body of rco I claim as my invention, and desire to secure sealing-bolt having a head or stop of greater by Letters Patent Width than the slot of the suspendingstaple,

The combination of a bearing p1ate,a swingsubstantially as set forth. ing hasp hinged thereto, and having a slot near GEORGE W. CUSHING. 5 its free end, a suspending staple fixed to the WVitnesses: i

bearing-plate in position to be inelosed by the CHAS. E. CRAIG,

slot of the hasp when turned upwardly, and a 0. N. PARMELEE. 

